Found deep in the Maury Mountains

Looks like some type of pyrite possibly.

I think it's a meteorite!

Is that supposed to be Chicken Little?!?  LOL

This looks like a sulfide ore like massive galena. What is the hardness? What color is the streak? Gray possibly galena, black magnetite, red hematite though it does not appear to be hematite. Is it magnetic?

Never try to catch a meteorite.

That meteorite shattered ice that impacted the elliptical shaped and radially oriented Carolina Bays likely had bubbles in it James .

The truth will just have to remain a mystery. As Pilate said, "What is truth" ?

When having a suspected meteorite tested, you do not give them the whole thing. Generally it is 20 grams or if the whole thing is under 100 grams, then 20%. That is payment for the testing. Some labs want 30 grams or 30%.

When I sent off samples for my suspected meteorite, I sent them I think it was 48 grams between 2 samples. I sent 2 because as I explained to them, they do not look alike, but if they examine them under the microscope they will find they are the same stone. One sample was gray with smaller inclusions mainly of plagioclase, and the other dark with larger plagioclase inclusions as well as olivine and what appears to be a zeolite. Both have fragments of iron-nickel, which is super rare in terrestrial rocks. Since slower cooling times result in larger crystal formation, my guess is that the darker material was more impact melted resulting in a longer cooling time allowing for the increased crystal growth.

Anyway, so the sample has to be cut regardless if going to sent for testing. And seeing the inside can also tell you right away if it is a meteorite as the interior would be bright, shiny silver, not dark metal. Although slag can also be bright shiny silver on the inside, if dark that would definitely rule out an iron meteorite.

A streak test can also help rule out magnetite or hematite as both leave colored streaks as where a true iron meteorite will not.

This brings up another point as to why I am certain this is not a meteorite. When doing a streak test, it is important to get down to the clean metal as iron meteorites will form a thin coat of rust, and sometimes rust through, with exposure to the elements. I found one in the wall of a wash one time, but unfortunately it had rusted through due to all the water and being exposed to air. How resistant an iron meteorite will be to rusting through depends on its nickel content. Still, exposure will lead to at least a thin layer of rust on the surface of real iron meteorites unless it is collected right away.

And again, the bubbles are a dead giveaway that this is not a meteorite. The top is somewhat smooth, but the bottom is too rough. Meteors hit the atmosphere at 10,000 to 30,000 miles per hour causing intense frictional heating sufficient to form the bolide (gas plasma) that allows us to see them. This frictional heating also melts the surface, with any rough areas being ablated away due to even higher friction. Therefore, if this were a meteorite, that rough surface on the bottom would not exist. It would have been ablated away. The only rough surfaces we see on meteorites are the edges formed from the break up of stony meteorites or the shrapnel of iron meteorites that break up so low in the atmosphere that they do not have time to re-melt. Still they do not have bubbles, and that rough surface would have been melted if this was a meteorite.

I suggest starting with the streak test to see if it is a iron ore.

Nope. My dad has it now and I haven’t been over there to do anything with it since.